On Sat 2018-07-14 (16:31), Achim Gratz wrote:
You have to install Cygwin, not "transfer".
I have several 100 users, none of them is able to install cygwin and
the packages they need the official way, they are way to *CENSORED* for
this job :-}
If they can follow your current instructions, they can surely start some
script that does this correctly?
I do not have a script which installs all needed packages.
I give them my preconfigured cygwin.zip (or cygwin64.zip) and tell them to
unpack it in C:\
http://fex.belwue.de/usecases/cygwin.html
Whatever you call it, it's still cludgey nonsense that might or might
not work. Only when it's not working your users will really be unable
to figure out what to do since they won't even know what is failing.
So far, it has worked for all my users. No one is complaining.
script that calls setup to install it and any other packages you need
(if not already installed by way of dependency). Setup can deal with
multiple package repositories, so you can use one of the official
mirrors as the primary package repository and only provide your package
as an add-on repository (like cygwin ports does).
How do I write such a script?
Is there documentation/examples about this?
This install script must first download the cygwin base package, install
it and then run setup with all needed cygwin packages.
But at the very beginning, I do not have a shell at all?